Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
I’m kicking off Sci-Fi Month with three upcoming science fiction books. And bonus, all of them have excellent covers, take a look:
The Dog Stars meets The Deluge in this haunting debut novel about survival and the mysterious link between humans and nature.
Years after a swift and bewildering global illness, humanity is still living in the shadow of the amaranth, and puzzling over its canine origins.
Billy has secluded herself in an isolated mountain homestead, where she’s approached by a border collie that inexplicably survived the catastrophe. With Billy’s help and fierce protection, the collie becomes the matriarch of a hidden bloodline of healthy dogs that all science and recent events say cannot exist.
Owen is an amaranth investigator, lost in its maze of scientific dead ends. He finds solace in his weekly visit with one of the amaranth’s rare survivors as she prepares for her annual tide—an echo of the original event that brings trepidation and confusion every summer. They barely talk, and don’t know each others’ names, but what Owen receives from her is enough for him: a tender glimpse into the heart of the illness and everything he can’t understand.
Curtis has nothing better to do than follow his nose. Which he does, everywhere. Often into places he doesn’t belong. His curiosity leads him to a group of fanatical survivors who have a dangerous plan to save themselves—and maybe everyone—from the looming threat of the amaranth.
These three and others will converge around a single extraordinary animal: a black dog so invaluable that everyone from the government to rogue breeders will stop at nothing to claim it.
Propulsive and suspenseful, sneakily funny and unflinching in its portrayals, The Name of the Dog is a heartfelt and humane exploration of what endures after the things we love most have been lost, asking whether salvation lies not in mastering nature, but in learning to hear its voice.
The Name of the Dog by Mark Hitz. Releases in June 2027 from Saga Press. The story sounds rather complex, but I’m really excited to read this. Anything with dogs makes me hesitate because of possible animal cruelty, but I’m not getting that so far. I’ll be keeping my eye on reviews, though! Cover rating: A+
The Ooze is New York Times bestseller Mira Grant’s latest chilling excursion into science fiction horror, combining the futile inevitability of The Blob with the modern sensibility of The Last of Us.The most terrifying thing about the end of the world is how inevitable it is.
Three billion years ago, something was born at the bottom of the sea. For millennia, it consumed everything it touched. Then the ice came, and it slept.
Now the ice is melting, and it’s waking up in a new world, one ripe and ready to be consumed.
Dr. Fiadh Sinclair has spent her career studying the early-world extinctions that left nothing behind, the ones we can identify only through absence. She knows what this ancient horror is from the moment she learns of it. She knows exactly what it will do if allowed to feed unchecked. And she knows that seeing what’s coming won’t be enough to save anyone.
Maybe nothing can.
The Ooze is a sprawling standalone novel about the end of the world, told by people who understood what was happening and still couldn’t stop it.
The Ooze by Mira Grant. Releases in June 2027 from Tor Nightfire. I’m excited to read a new sci-fi horror book by Mira Grant! I like that the synopsis is a little vague, it sounds very creepy… Cover rating: A
A spellbinding debut novel about a young woman and her estranged sister, a fleet of decaying spaceships centuries from Earth, and the layers of conspiracy and moral complicity at the heart of human life
My sister told me we were always meant to vanish.
Carina Loew, twenty-nine, hasn’t spoken to her sister Ursa in a decade. Instead, she has built a solitary life as a watcher on Tundra, a city-sized spaceship in the fleet that fled Earth centuries ago. Through her telescope she looks out onto the Flotilla’s other aging ships, sounding the alarm about cracked panels and further signs of imminent disaster. Some say it’s only a matter of time until all the ships come apart. Yet where is there to go? Humanity is alone in space, haunted by losses both distant and near: the mythologized landscapes of their former planetary home and the disappearance of Pacific and its one million inhabitants—an event still not fully explained after twenty years.
Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Pacific’s vanishing, a journalist threatens to reveal the terrible secret that changed everything for Carina and Ursa when they were children. But as this secret closes in, forcing the sisters to finally reconnect, Carina comes to understand that not everything about her world is as it seems. What she uncovers might tear the Flotilla apart—but it might also be their only chance for salvation.
Lyrical, propulsive, and wildly original, Flotilla is a story of sisterhood, grief, and the lengths we will go to make sense of our place in a vast universe—a remarkable debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction.
Flotilla by Emma Hine. Releases in July 2027 from Hogarth. I can’t remember where I saw this book, but I’m so glad I did! This is a publisher I don’t follow but I really want to read it. It’s also going on the science fiction list I’m working on for Sci Fi Month:-) Cover rating: A+
What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!
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